Thread: I made a light box.

Cools, i was thinking about looking up light-box ideas/design on the way home today.

Boom,

there it is!

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Camera/camera apps: you might play with the "f-stop" settings too. Lower numbers, longer "exposure", better detail but camera must be steady.

And now that most bulbs are rated in Kelvin temps for colors, you can play with that as well. 2700k is the "warm" light end and 6500 is "daylight" bluer color. 5000k strikes a good balance, and is becoming more available. I often "mix" the 2700 and 6500 for work area illumination.

You might try the "y" sockets such that you can double up on bulbs (low-wattage stuff like CFL and LED) and work on colors/intensity. I do this with clamp-on utility lights (reflector removed).

I forgot to mention, these things made the whole project a lot easier, I just wish I had found out that I had three more of them before I was almost done.

I figger sticking paper to the sides of an unused aquarium would be a quick easy. Or (careful folks he's had zero coffee) I just conceived of this: cutting windows into a box, then papering up the box-internally or externally, add lights.

oh, lookie that USPS box is white even..

okay i'll grind some beans

Originally Posted by WadePatton

I figger sticking paper to the sides of an unused aquarium would be a quick easy. Or (careful folks he's had zero coffee) I just conceived of this: cutting windows into a box, then papering up the box-internally or externally, add lights.

oh, lookie that USPS box is white even..

okay i'll grind some beans

One can easily solve great problems before the morning ingestion of a legal drug brings them back to reality.

gotta seize the lucid moments!

Took some more pictures, this time I had the side lights moved to the front, a longer shutter time and a few other settings tweaked.



Showing off my bread tie razor stand:

I see you've done some tinkering since your first post! The most recent pics look great. I like the stand, too!

Originally Posted by WadePatton

I figger sticking paper to the sides of an unused aquarium would be a quick easy. Or (careful folks he's had zero coffee) I just conceived of this: cutting windows into a box, then papering up the box-internally or externally, add lights.

oh, lookie that USPS box is white even..

okay i'll grind some beans

Yeah that's what mine is. I used cut up white t-shirts for the "paper". Seems to work pretty good. I think I got the idea from a youtube video. +1 on the daylight color bulbs.